Item Detail
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MSS SC 2576
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Joseph Smith letter
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Smith, Joseph, Jr.
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1844
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Photographs of a handwritten and signed letter dated June 18, 1844 and addressed to James Strang. Smith responds to Strang's request to establish a stake of the Mormon Church in Wisconsin. Smith said that the inquiry was received negatively by the leaders of the Mormon Church, but later it was accepted more positiviely. Smith then records a vision he had in which he was carried to the Kingdom of Heaven by angels and spoke with God about the request. God told Smith that the stake was to be established in Wisconsin and that it would prosper.